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The Modern Man's Book Club
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items A list of my all-time favorite books. There's no rhyme or reason to these particular books other than the fact that I've greatly enjoyed them all, and they've all changed the way I look at the world and my own life.
Sections
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Fantasy
Thought Provoking and Emotional
Light Reads and Comedy
Fantasy
Yes I know the ending of the show was horrible, and yes I know that George has yet to finish the book series and probably never will. But remember how you felt the first time watching the earlier seasons of Game of Thrones? The books give you that fe...
A Game of Thrones
The prologue to the greatest trilogy of all time. Enter the world of Middle Earth for the first time and fall in love with J.R.R Tolkien's unmatched writing
The Hobbit
An interesting take on the power of language and translation and how it powered and build colonial powers like England. The ending of this novel was one of the most exciting reads I've ever had
Babel by R. F Kuang
My 2nd favorite book I've ever read. If you're a fan of Greek mythology like me, you've heard of the story of Circe. In this groundbreaking novel Madeline Miller offers an unheard of take on Greek Mythology by telling the tale from a women's point of...
Circe
Another incredibly fresh take on a common Greek myth. This book is a retelling of the Trojan war and the aftermath of the war from multiple different women's perspectives. Getting to experience the story from their point of view adds a whole new laye...
A Thousand Ships
Madeline Miller just does not miss. This was her first breakthrough book prior to writing the phenomenal Circe, but it is by no means a lesser novel. In this epic tale, Madeline Miller shows how no matter how great a hero Achilles was, he had a weak ...
The Song of Achilles
Another George R.R. Martin rec because no matter how frustrated I get at his writer's block and not finishing A Song of Ice and Fire I just can't quite his writing. Anyone who is a fan of the HBO show House of the Dragon needs to read this book to ge...
Fire & Blood
This series is one of my favorite from my childhood and helped start my love for reading. Absolutely recommend to any young readers trying to get into the fantasy genre and looking for something a bit different than the usuals like Harry Potter
Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo
Thought Provoking and Emotional
This is hands down the best book I've read since graduating college. I could not put this book down once I started reading it. You can connect to the characters despite living across the world and hundreds of years after the events of the book take p...
A Gentleman in Moscow
One of the most underrated books I've read in my life. Ed Kennedy is a down on his luck cab driver when he accidentally stops a bank robbery. What happens next will have you rethinking your own life and changing the way you see the world
I Am the Messenger
We all know Machiavelli's “The Prince” which was a gift given to Lorenzo de Medici as a roadmap of how to rule. Most people assume that Machiavelli wrote this to gain favor with the Medici, but in this mix of fiction and non-fiction Erica Benner argu...
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom
Light Reads and Comedy
A much lighter read than my other suggestions. This is a book written by former Ohio State basketball walk-on Mark Titus detailing his hijinks and experiences as a benchwarmer. He gives phenomenal insights and actually true stories that will have you...
Don't Put Me In, Coach